@Op:
I would recommend to write a lengthy article and describe your choice for ALL fees as well as add a discussion of advantages and disadvantages ..
Putting the new fees online without proper justification will result (as we see here) and many people complaining that don't understand the difficulties of the optimization you are trying to achieve
Yes, fully agree!
This was a horrible way of doing committee work. Of course this is just a baby-DAC taking its first steps, but I would have hoped a little more mature behavior here.
I will speak for myself and not for all the committee:
I really thought, maybe naively, that another thread about fees was pretty useless since in the last week or two, we saw a huge number of threads and posts discussing the transfer fee without reaching a common goal.
I, again naively, also thought that the decision we took was not going to get much complains, because to me (and to the all committee) it is really a good starting point and a good compromise between all the discussed point of view.
At the end of the day, we listened to both parties, and we tried to please both.
-Who was complaining for lowering transfer fee (way much lower than 30 BTS), at least saw a little improvement towards that direction. They felt listened.
-Who thought that the transfer fee should be kept high (and no one asked to raise it over 40 BTS anyway) for the referrals/business side of bitshares, saw only a little decrease in their *currently* possible revenues.
On this very last point, I (and again all the committee) was&are pretty sure to not really damage/ruin any business related plan, since the decrease is not huge at all and the proposed change had fav support. And we all know that fav has put a lot in this and would never support that decision if he thought that it would ruin his business.
Anyway, the most important thing is learn from mistakes.
There was obviously a huge lack of communication on the committee part toward the community.
We learned this lesson and we will not make this mistake again.